The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of ...

Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked by climate change, racism and economic disparity.

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by ...

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025?

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could be described as made-up ...

Butler's work has resurfaced for its depictions of the future seemingly coming to life. The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable Of The Sower imagined fires engulfing Los Angeles ...

Octavia Butler Imagined LA Ravaged by Fires. Her Altadena Cemetery Survived ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires.

The sign outside Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary School in Baytown.

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did ...